She likes it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dianne that is! She likes it. Phew! Here's the book and box I made for her. It's a memory book. I thought I would make something a little different since she already makes beautiful books. I decided at the last minute to make a box for it so that it would travel safely through the mail. Well I am a box maker after all (you can see some on my website).
The spine is made from wooden dowels that I painted with Textile Paint in lavendar which I mixed with a pearleascent powder to give a colour that closely matches the book fabric. Before painting the wood I sharpened the ends with a pencil sharpener. I added the gold coloured findings to each end. I made some Angelina fibre "beads" and put them on the centre of the wooden dowels and then "wrapped" with yarn. The gold findings I found in my stash. I am a tassel maker and I use these for the ends of the tassels. I think they just finished off the wooden dowels quite well.

The book is made from pelmet vilene covered with batiks in various colours. I made a sheet of silk paper and a sheet of Angelina fibre for the front of the book and I also put some angelina fibres on the back cover of the book. I painted and embossed copper shim and added some accent beads through a stencil for the front and free motion stippled quilted them. Dianne loves sparkly things and so I added some Swarzovski crystals and some other metal "beads" to the book.
The outside of the box is covered with handpainted/sun printed fabric. A lovely pink sparkly fabric which I frayed at the edges is layered on top and again I brought the copper and accent beads into the box design. The stencil design is just a little different from the one on the book.

This was a joy to make and I am so glad she likes it.